The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.
I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death.
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.
Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?
Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.
Life and death are the same. . . Leave karma to karma.
How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!
Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achievements. These alone count in life.
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.
At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty